Gottlob Burmann
Illustration — Gedichte ohne den Buchstaben R, Berlin, 1796. Gottlob Wilhelm Burmann (18 May 1737 in Lauban – 5 January 1805) was a German Romantic poet and lipogrammatist. He is best known for his dislike of the letter R. The letter does not appear in any of his 130 poems.
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Gottlob Burmann
Gottlob Burmann · Staatsbiblothek Berlin · Public domain
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- 1737 · Lubań.
- Died
- 1805 · Berlin.
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- Electorate of Saxony
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- poet · writer · journalist · composer · organist · editing staff
- Languages
- German
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Illustration — Gedichte ohne den Buchstaben R, Berlin, 1796. Gottlob Wilhelm Burmann (18 May 1737 in Lauban – 5 January 1805) was a German Romantic poet and lipogrammatist. He is best known for his dislike of the letter R. The letter does not appear in any of his 130 poems.
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Born at Lubań in 1737, died in Berlin in 1805.
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- 1.John Robinson Pierce, Symbols, Signals, And Noise: The Nature and Process of Communication (1962), p. 48.
- 2.Lipogrammatic Works of Fiction by 'Forthright'. The Phrontistery; retrieved 14 February 2009.
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